“OK, I need to know who did this, and whoever they are, they need help, bad.”
“Ain't it the truth, Eleanor, because anybody who needs your Lee colonel cousin and my Pop-Pop telling them off before they even have their coffee break really needs to see somebody.”
Eleven-year-old Eleanor Ludlow and eight-year-old Gracie Trent were eating strawberries on Eleanor's porch, far enough away to hear two men representing several billion dollars in resources bawling out a third man without being able to make out all the terms.
“But they are making some terrible tenor-baritone harmony,” Gracie's eleven-year-old sister Velma said as she came out with her strawberries, “if you love money and status.”
“All they need is for Papa to get wind of it with his bass,” Eleanor's ten-year-old brother Andrew said as he sat down with his strawberries and his shake of the head, “and that's the three-part harmony of doom.”
“What I'm trying to figure out is how people get into these situations,” Velma said. “I mean, I read the article, and it's the dumbest thing ever to put up a whole light show and forget that the building will short circuit the minute you plug it in, but I'm trying to understand how you are leading anything when you don't know how to take care of what you are supposed to be fixing.”
“So, I have a thought about how,” nine-year-old George Ludlow said when he came out with his strawberries. “You know how when you are playing video games nobody really gets hurt and you win or lose and came back and do it over?”
“Yeah,” the other kids said.
“Some grown folks don't know this isn't a game,” George said, “until they lose it.”
“You know,” nine-year-old Milton Trent said as he came out with his strawberries, “I have heard adults talk about everything from making money to getting all booed up like it is some kind of collector's game.”
“It's on the news and in the movies all the time,” nine-year-old Vertran Stepforth said. “That's why I have to have my father as my business manager and Pop-Pop as my mentor, because there are people out there who think everyone else is just a non-player character with no goals and purpose of their own.”
“OK, but if you burn down your building in a video game, you're still safe and can do better the next day,” seven-year-old Amanda Ludlow said said as she came out with her strawberries. “But, the people on the other end of that Zoom call are not safe at all right now.”
“You gotta read the blueprints for your building,” six-year-old Grayson Ludlow said as he came out with his strawberries.
“So you have a place to eat strawberries,” five-year-old Lil' Robert Ludlow said as he came out with his strawberries.
“Ain't it the truth,” Gracie said. “All I'm saying is, live your life so you don't have Pop-Pop and Col. Lee on a Zoom call telling you about yourself and so you have a place to eat strawberries.”
“They're doing such a good job I don't even need to go tell them off,” eight-year-old Edwina Ludlow as she came out with her strawberries, “and I'm totally here for it!”
“But over here, where it's safe and Cousin Maggie has pounds of strawberries to eat,” Amanda said.
“Well, yeah,” Edwina said. “Over here where we don't have a player of games that is too big to even use those little joysticks.”
“I hadn't even thought about that,” Eleanor said. “People are out here trying to do adult life with a little kid's brain, forget the joysticks!”
“Hey!” Lil' Robert said. “You take that back, Ellie – even I know you gotta not put two bowls of strawberries in one!”
“But, Rob,” Eleanor said, “you have a real tall soul, so you know I'm not talking about you.”
“Oh, well, OK, I'm sorry for yelling,” he said, and went and gave his big sister a hug.
“I think that's actually it,” Andrew said. “We were trained by people who think it's OK to make a mistake and it doesn't make you less of a person, so we don't have to pretend. We just fix things up and move on.”
“Well, video game players are told to get good,” Grayson said. “People might want to do that in real life too.”
“Ain't it the truth,” Gracie, Milton, and Velma (all grandchildren of Gladys Jubilee Trent and using her saying) said.
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Nice story comparing life with video games.
Thank you ... it is true in my culture that you will hear people justifying their childish, selfish behavior by saying life is just a game, but as even a former president here has now found out, no, life most certainly is not a game...
Thank you for sharing. True, truly life is not a game since we only have 1 life.